Emailing: Universal Floppy reader, was Re Extracting CDOS and CP-M) files

[David Griffith]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Grant Stockly wrote:

> There are 44 pin QFP packages available to control 4 drives, 8" to
> 3.5".  $7.50 a piece.  To me its not even worth the time to do a
> google search for disk drive cores.  Free usually means buggy and
> YMMV any way...  ; )

Hmm, I suppose that chip would do the trick for native block-access.
Still, an FPGA will be required to support "weird" formats like Commodore
older Macintosh.

> I'm making a 3.5" disk drive card for the Altair.

Nifty!  When can we expect the serial and cassette tape cards?

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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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